Steve Hickner

Bee Movie

It's tempting to want to like Bee Movie better than other animated films purely by virtue of Jerry Seinfeld's participation. Few comedians have ever captured a pop culture moment better than his self-titled show did, and in its own way the movie tries to do the same thing by deconstructing our environmental and cultural concerns against a veneer of day-glo colors and simple romantic-comedy conventions. But Seinfeld's humor lends itself to observations, not actions, and animation is an inherently active ...